Wild Boar

 
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  • Piglets Live in Nests, Yes, while they are certainly mammals, wild boars actually keep their babies in a nest made entirely out of leaves.

  • Piglets have brown fur, covered in creamy-colored stripes, which provide camouflage in dense vegetation. Stripes begin to disappear when piglets reach the age of 3 to 4 months

  • They Are Nocturnal, Wild boars can sleep for up to 12 hours in a day, and are active for the nightly half of the 24 hours. Wah, pretty good life. However, Wild boars on Ubin have adapted to hunt and snatch food from visitors of Ubin.

  • Wild boar snout is not just long, but it’s very rubbery too. The snout’s been designed such to help them delve deep below the ground for bulbs and roots.

  • Wild boars male spend their life in solitary, until it’s time to mate. The only time they’re not alone is during the mating season.

  • The wild boar is a native animal of Singapore which can weigh up to 100kg and has a lifespan of over 20 years. They are omnivorous, but feed mainly on seeds, tubers and young plants. Each female wild boar can start reproducing at 18 months of age and can produce 4 to 6 piglets a year. Their quick reproduction rates, presence of ideal foraging habitats and the lack of natural predators all contribute to their population growth. These days they are increasingly spotted all over the island.

  • The increase in the population of wild boars may result in a higher frequency of human-wild boar conflict as they wander into parks, public roads and residential areas. They are pretty good at destroying a golf course’s fairway and putting green

  • In 2019, a video of a wild boar tussling with a female cyclist in Chek Jawa was circulated online.

    It was shown stealing curry puffs from her bicycle, even as the woman tried to wrestle the bicycle back..

  • With a lack of natural predators, the wild boar population has increased rapidly and may negatively affect our forests’ regeneration. High numbers of wild boars may also decrease local biodiversity.

  • Their natural behaviour to dig up the soil in order to find food, thus damaging tree saplings compromises reforestation and habitat enhancement efforts. These can have negative impacts on the long-term viability of small patches of forests such as our nature reserves if the wild boar population remains unchecked.

  • 8 charged with feeding wild boars near Sungei Api Api Park in Pasir Ris, Four of them pleaded guilty and were each fined $2,500.